Accessing Views

These functions implement the HTTP API for accessing Views.

Note: Views were introduced in ArangoDB 3.4 and are not supported by earlier versions of ArangoDB.

database.arangoSearchView

database.arangoSearchView(viewName): ArangoSearchView

Returns a ArangoSearchView instance for the given View name.

Arguments

• viewName: string

  Name of the ArangoSearch View.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const view = db.arangoSearchView("potatoes");

database.listViews

async database.listViews(): Array<Object>

Fetches all Views from the database and returns an array of View descriptions.

Examples

const db = new Database();

const views = await db.listViews();
// views is an array of View descriptions

database.views

async database.views([excludeSystem]): Array<View>

Fetches all Views from the database and returns an array of ArangoSearchView instances for the Views.

Examples

const db = new Database();

const views = await db.views();
// views is an array of ArangoSearch View instances